The
future
of
Covid

October 12, 2021 -- Dr. Adam Lauring (my cousin, ahem) is quoted in today's New York Times article, What the Future may Hold for the Coronavirus and Us, predicting the future course of the Covid-19 pandemic.

"There was, I think, a sense [that the evolution of the virus] would work in our favor, and that the nightmare scenario of it being like influenza -- constantly changing and needing updated vaccines all the time -- would probably not be the case," said Dr. Adam Lauring, a virologist and infectious disease physician at the University of Michigan.

The article concludes:

Eventually, as viral evolution slows down and our immune systems catch up, we will reach an uneasy equilibrium with the virus, scientists predict. We will never extinguish it, but it will smolder rather than rage... The future, [Dr. Jonathan Quick, author of The End of Epidemics] said, "depends much, much more on what humans do than on what the virus does."

Translation: get your shots, people!

Go Adam! Go vaccination-dispensing nurses!

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